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636 Bytes: What Happens When You Stop Teaching RPA the Path

Don Johnson3d ago • 5 min read

636 Bytes: What Happens When You Stop Teaching RPA the Path

A Rust and WebAssembly experiment in replacing brittle browser paths with bounded intent, local auth...

#ai#webassembly#automation#rust

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One directory is the task manager my agents share

Alkis YuvAug 23, 2026 • 3 min read

One directory is the task manager my agents share

A queue of plain markdown files coordinating humans and machine agents, with acceptance tests and ev...

#ai#agents#automation#workflow

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I Audited 50,669 n8n Runs. 85% of Failures Alerted Nobody.

אחיה כהןAug 24, 2026 • 6 min read

I Audited 50,669 n8n Runs. 85% of Failures Alerted Nobody.

Three days of a broken WhatsApp bot, an error handler that was itself failing silently, and the SQL ...

#n8n#devops#automation#discuss

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I Built a Security Firewall for AI Agents: From 73 Tests to 1,600+

ShubhbhangooAug 23, 2026 • 7 min read

I Built a Security Firewall for AI Agents: From 73 Tests to 1,600+

AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of using tools. They can call APIs, access databases,.....

#ai#agents#api#automation

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Your Cron Job Is Lying to You: A Dependency-Free Watchdog for Silent Failures

Syed Anzar5d ago • 7 min read

Your Cron Job Is Lying to You: A Dependency-Free Watchdog for Silent Failures

Three dependency-free guards that stop cron jobs from silently failing: pipefail, unbuffered output,...

#devops#bash#python#automation

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I Ran 89,479 WhatsApp Messages Through WAHA. Twilio: $604.

אחיה כהן4d ago • 6 min read

I Ran 89,479 WhatsApp Messages Through WAHA. Twilio: $604.

A real 30-day production benchmark: self-hosted WAHA vs Twilio + Meta Cloud API. The SQL that finds ...

#whatsapp#devops#automation#discuss

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Atul Joshi6d ago • 6 min read

How not to use sub-agents!

What a 500-script migration taught me about when agent parallelism actually makes sense I...

#ai#programming#automation#agents

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Your verification tool reports what it saw, never where it didn't look

John6d ago • 10 min read

Your verification tool reports what it saw, never where it didn't look

Five videos passed a twelve-item compliance gate and shipped. A later audit found four defects. The ...

#automation#software#testing

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3 Wrong Guesses About a Chrome Slot Limit: 3 6 Reserved Lanes

Lily4d ago • 24 min read

3 Wrong Guesses About a Chrome Slot Limit: 3 6 Reserved Lanes

Automation doesn't break when you write it. It breaks in production, weeks later, quietly — and my.....

#automation#bash#launchd#devops

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Four Alarm Slots, Three Failure Modes: Building a Nightly Drain That Survives Sleep, Races, and Timeouts

LilyAug 24, 2026 • 22 min read

Four Alarm Slots, Three Failure Modes: Building a Nightly Drain That Survives Sleep, Races, and Timeouts

Every night my Mac quietly rewrites my long-term memory. Not metaphorically — a shell script drains....

#automation#bash#macos#claude

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Which Skill Is Quietly Burning Your Tokens? Find Out From transcript.jsonl

Lily6d ago • 20 min read

Which Skill Is Quietly Burning Your Tokens? Find Out From transcript.jsonl

Your monthly Claude Code bill went up 20%. You know that much. What you don't know is which Skill di...

#automation#claudecode#python#bash

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The runner deleted what it told me to rescue

Alkis YuvAug 23, 2026 • 4 min read

The runner deleted what it told me to rescue

The morning report said 'push failed, manual push needed' six times over; the runner had already del...

#git#automation#ai#devops

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CLI Snapshot Testing: Stop Your Internal Tools From Breaking Everyone Else's Pipeline

Bryandero983d ago • 3 min read

CLI Snapshot Testing: Stop Your Internal Tools From Breaking Everyone Else's Pipeline

Every team with more than a couple of engineers ends up with at least one internal CLI - a deploy...

#automation#cli#devops#testing

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Why inbox AI only drafts, and what it takes to let it act

Royal Simpson Pinto6d ago • 4 min read

Why inbox AI only drafts, and what it takes to let it act

How I built a support agent that auto-resolves tickets within policy and escalates the rest with the...

#ai#typescript#nextjs#automation

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Claude Forgets Everything Overnight — The 3:30 AM Batch That Harvests What It Learned

LilyAug 24, 2026 • 24 min read

Claude Forgets Everything Overnight — The 3:30 AM Batch That Harvests What It Learned

My conversation logs are gone by morning. My environment, meanwhile, wakes up smarter than it went t...

#automation#ai#macos#productivity

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I Never Multiplied Two Config Values — and Got SIGKILLed Every Day for Two Weeks

Lily4d ago • 27 min read

I Never Multiplied Two Config Values — and Got SIGKILLed Every Day for Two Weeks

Every setting in my Instagram automation script was correct. The action caps were correct. The delay...

#automation#python#playwright#devops

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My Trading Bot Silently Ignored Signals for 41 Days: The "Opportunity vs. Execution" Logging That Saved Me

oji - building AI in public5d ago • 3 min read

My Trading Bot Silently Ignored Signals for 41 Days: The "Opportunity vs. Execution" Logging That Saved Me

Hey everyone, it's your resident grandpa-developer here. I develop and run AI-powered automated...

#devops#debugging#python#automation

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Alkis YuvAug 23, 2026 • 2 min read

What my agents do while I sleep

The policy layer of unattended agent runs: runner-held claims, skip-never-fight, and the report that...

#ai#agents#automation#productivity

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Fibula4d ago • 5 min read

Claude Code as Creative Director

For the past six months I ran a git repository as a one-person film studio. The crew was Claude,...

#claude#ai#opensource#automation

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I built a contractor-license Actor that AI agents call and pay for on their own

Fidele Maniraruta4d ago • 9 min read

I built a contractor-license Actor that AI agents call and pay for on their own

I don't have an audience. No newsletter, no Twitter following, no YouTube channel. Every product I.....

#ai#webdev#tutorial#automation

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I gave my AI agent a safety rule. It quietly stopped shipping for four days.

dustin chu5d ago • 4 min read

I gave my AI agent a safety rule. It quietly stopped shipping for four days.

The rule looked responsible: never publish the first article without my approval. The agent obeyed i...

#agents#ai#debugging#automation

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Rate Limits Cost Me a Whole Night of Work — Here's the 46-Line Script That Fixed It

LilyAug 23, 2026 • 21 min read

Rate Limits Cost Me a Whole Night of Work — Here's the 46-Line Script That Fixed It

Every heavy Claude Code user eventually hits the wall: the 5-hour rate limit block. I'm Lily. I los...

#automation#bash#claude#productivity

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exit 0 Lies: A Job That Needed 4,940s in a 2,400s Slot, and the 3-Day Streak That Exposed It

Lily4d ago • 20 min read

exit 0 Lies: A Job That Needed 4,940s in a 2,400s Slot, and the 3-Day Streak That Exposed It

I grew a side hustle from ¥100k a month to ¥600k by stacking gigs, watched it drop to zero overnight...

#automation#python#devops#monitoring

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A session that closes has to prove it cleaned up